Senior Software Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Software Engineer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 504 520
Rank change year-on-year +172 +16 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Engineer 204 142 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 109 191
10th Percentile £425 £424 £495
25th Percentile £466 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £800 £675 £713
90th Percentile £850 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £650 £556 £600
% change year-on-year +16.91% -7.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 4 8
10th Percentile £35.52 £39.88 £35.13
25th Percentile £46.91 £47.19 £42.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.05 £51.51
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.20 £62.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £47.25
% change year-on-year +23.81% +11.11% -0.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Senior Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Senior Software Engineer in England

Senior Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London +147 121 £650 +4.00% 219
South East +29 29 £543 +5.85% 103
North of England +33 17 £350 -28.28% 52
North West +18 12 £625 +21.83% 33
East of England +12 11 £600 -6.25% 43
Yorkshire +21 5 £280 -37.78% 15
South West +5 5 £488 -17.37% 48
West Midlands +17 2 - - 25
Midlands +14 2 - - 34
Senior Software Engineer
UK

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Senior Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Software Engineer in the job title.

1 202 (99.02%) Software Engineering
2 104 (50.98%) Agile
2 104 (50.98%) AWS
3 72 (35.29%) Java
4 63 (30.88%) Python
5 57 (27.94%) JavaScript
6 56 (27.45%) Finance
7 52 (25.49%) Kubernetes
8 47 (23.04%) Docker
8 47 (23.04%) TypeScript
9 40 (19.61%) User Experience
10 39 (19.12%) Pandas
11 38 (18.63%) Kafka
11 38 (18.63%) Derivative
11 38 (18.63%) Front Office
11 38 (18.63%) Asset Management
12 37 (18.14%) Fixed Income
12 37 (18.14%) C#
12 37 (18.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (18.14%) UX Design
12 37 (18.14%) gRPC
13 36 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
13 36 (17.65%) Protocol Buffers
13 36 (17.65%) Equities
14 35 (17.16%) Banking
14 35 (17.16%) Go
15 34 (16.67%) NumPy
16 33 (16.18%) Investment Management
17 32 (15.69%) Fintech
18 31 (15.20%) User Research

Senior Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (15.20%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.49%) Drupal
3 1 (0.49%) MTS
3 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Simulink
1 2 (0.98%) Stateflow
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (50.98%) AWS
2 31 (15.20%) Azure
3 30 (14.71%) dbt
4 29 (14.22%) Snowflake
5 14 (6.86%) GCP
6 9 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.43%) Serverless
8 6 (2.94%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (2.45%) GitHub
10 4 (1.96%) Miro
11 3 (1.47%) OpenShift
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) RS-485
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) RS-422
2 1 (0.49%) SNMP
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
2 1 (0.49%) WAN
2 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (15.20%) Apache Cassandra
2 30 (14.71%) Amazon Athena
2 30 (14.71%) Apache Arrow
2 30 (14.71%) Apache Ignite
2 30 (14.71%) Dremio
3 29 (14.22%) Data Lake
4 12 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.98%) MySQL
8 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.49%) KDB
8 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.49%) Redis
8 1 (0.49%) Scylla
8 1 (0.49%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 13 (6.37%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.43%) GitLab
3 6 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 6 (2.94%) Selenium
4 5 (2.45%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.45%) JIRA
4 5 (2.45%) REST Assured
4 5 (2.45%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.96%) Git
6 3 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.47%) Gradle
6 3 (1.47%) JUnit
6 3 (1.47%) Maven
6 3 (1.47%) MSI
6 3 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.47%) webpack
6 3 (1.47%) WiX
7 1 (0.49%) Babel
7 1 (0.49%) JMeter
7 1 (0.49%) Spinnaker
General
1 56 (27.45%) Finance
2 38 (18.63%) Front Office
3 35 (17.16%) Banking
4 30 (14.71%) Investment Banking
5 29 (14.22%) Social Skills
6 12 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.41%) Retail
8 8 (3.92%) Local Government
9 7 (3.43%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (2.94%) Law
10 6 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.96%) Automotive
11 4 (1.96%) Electronics
11 4 (1.96%) Marketing
11 4 (1.96%) Military
11 4 (1.96%) Police
12 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.12%) Pandas
2 38 (18.63%) Kafka
3 37 (18.14%) gRPC
4 36 (17.65%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (16.67%) NumPy
6 30 (14.71%) SciPy
7 29 (14.22%) React
8 26 (12.75%) .NET
9 22 (10.78%) Node.js
10 20 (9.80%) REST
11 12 (5.88%) AngularJS
11 12 (5.88%) XML
12 11 (5.39%) RESTful
12 11 (5.39%) Spring
13 10 (4.90%) Java EE
13 10 (4.90%) Spring Boot
14 9 (4.41%) CSS
15 8 (3.92%) .NET Core
15 8 (3.92%) Material-UI
16 7 (3.43%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.63%) Derivative
2 37 (18.14%) Fixed Income
2 37 (18.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 36 (17.65%) Equities
4 31 (15.20%) Hedge funds
5 10 (4.90%) Pricing Data
6 9 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.92%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (3.43%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.45%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.47%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.47%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.47%) Web 2.0
12 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.98%) FPGA
12 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (3.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.98%) Android
3 2 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (99.02%) Software Engineering
2 104 (50.98%) Agile
3 40 (19.61%) User Experience
4 38 (18.63%) Asset Management
5 37 (18.14%) UX Design
6 33 (16.18%) Investment Management
7 32 (15.69%) Fintech
8 31 (15.20%) User Research
8 31 (15.20%) UX Research
9 30 (14.71%) CI/CD
10 26 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (12.25%) Microservices
12 24 (11.76%) DevOps
13 19 (9.31%) Mentoring
14 18 (8.82%) Computer Science
14 18 (8.82%) Greeks
15 17 (8.33%) Scrum
16 16 (7.84%) TDD
17 15 (7.35%) OO
18 13 (6.37%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (35.29%) Java
2 63 (30.88%) Python
3 57 (27.94%) JavaScript
4 47 (23.04%) TypeScript
5 37 (18.14%) C#
6 35 (17.16%) Go
7 19 (9.31%) C++
7 19 (9.31%) SQL
8 11 (5.39%) C
9 8 (3.92%) Rust
10 7 (3.43%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.45%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.45%) Scala
12 4 (1.96%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.47%) Bicep
13 3 (1.47%) Clojure
13 3 (1.47%) Haskell
14 2 (0.98%) Bash
14 2 (0.98%) Perl
14 2 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.78%) Degree
3 19 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.47%) PhD
7 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
2 1 (0.49%) MiFID
2 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (23.04%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (25.49%) Kubernetes
2 15 (7.35%) Terraform
3 5 (2.45%) Ansible
3 5 (2.45%) Docker Swarm
3 5 (2.45%) Podman
4 1 (0.49%) Argo
4 1 (0.49%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.45%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.47%) SAP
4 2 (0.98%) Databricks
4 2 (0.98%) MathWorks
4 2 (0.98%) New Relic
4 2 (0.98%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.98%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.49%) Finsemble
5 1 (0.49%) HP
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle
5 1 (0.49%) Sparx
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